Publication
Information for teachers and school leaders - Primary and Special Schools
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From: Department of Education
- Published on: 12 January 2024
- Last updated on: 20 November 2024
- A guide to inspection in primary and special schools
- Looking at our School 2022: A quality framework for primary and special schools
- School Self-Evaluation
- Promoting and facilitating student participation and student leadership in schools
- View Inspection Reports
- Procedures for Review of Inspections on Schools and Teachers under Section 13(9) of the Education Act 1998
- Code of Practice for the Inspectorate
A guide to inspection in primary and special schools
A Guide to Inspection in Primary and Special Schools — Updated February 2025
This guide provides a general overview of the approach to inspection followed by the Department of Education Inspectorate and also an outline of each of the inspection types used in primary and special schools. It replaces the previous version published in 2022.
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Looking at our School 2022: A quality framework for primary and special schools
Looking at Our School 2022: A quality framework for primary schools and special schools
This document provides a set of standards against which primary schools and special schools can consider how well they are performing in relation to teaching and learning and leadership and management. It replaces the previous version published in 2016.
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School Self-Evaluation
Promoting and facilitating student participation and student leadership in schools
Participation with purpose means that children and young people’s views are listened to, taken seriously and given due weight with the intention of leading to an outcome or change within the decision-making process. This series of videos created by the DE Inspectorate in 2024, in collaboration with a number of primary schools, shares how these schools promote and facilitate the development of student participation and student leadership.
St. John the Apostle, Knocknacarra NS, Galway
Knocknacarra ETNS, Galway
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Procedures for Review of Inspections on Schools and Teachers under Section 13(9) of the Education Act 1998
Code of Practice for the Inspectorate
Code of Practice for the Inspectorate — August 2022
This document sets out the general principles and standards in accordance with which the Department of Education Inspectorate carries out its work. It replaces the previous version published in 2015.
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